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When patients help patients: Rethinking healthcare with Dr. Antoine Boivin
Dr. Antoine Boivin added someone with lived experience to his clinic’s healthcare team, and it made visits better for everyone. Hear from him ahead of his talk at the Putting Patients First conference in March.
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Why elevating patient voices matters in health research
The BC SUPPORT Unit is celebrating a new series of papers co-authored by patient partners. Medical journals are usually the domain of academic researchers, but elevating the voices of people with lived experience leads to better research.
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Walking together: Harley Eagle reflects on health and healing
Harley Eagle offers insights on reconciliation and on how health professionals and researchers can build respectful partnerships with Indigenous communities.
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Real world experience drives real world impact
A partnership between Health Research BC, Mitacs, and BC-based life sciences companies gives emerging researchers direct access to industry experience that traditional academic routes can’t always provide. Read about an internship at CereCura Nanotherapeutics, a biotech startup developing therapies for diseases of the brain.
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Research matters: See the impact
Read our 2024/25 Impact Report to learn how we’re ensuring research creates a healthier future for everyone in BC.
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BC SUPPORT Unit
The BC SUPPORT (Support for People & Patient-Oriented Research & Trials) Unit supports, patient-oriented research throughout BC to answer research questions that matter to patients and improve health care.
About Us
We fund people and research, and we partner on shared opportunities. Funded by our provincial government, we support a health research system that improves health and health care and strengthens the economy.
Our programs build research careers, our investments advance priority research, and our expertise accelerates the use of research evidence.
We acknowledge with respect and humility that our offices are located on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
We also acknowledge the diverse First Nations across British Columbia, who have inherent rights rooted in the connection to their lands and waters, which have never been surrendered. In the spirit of reconciliation, we aim to practice cultural safety, value Indigenous ways of knowing, and respect the rights of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.
Current Funding Opportunities
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When patients help patients: Rethinking healthcare with Dr. Antoine Boivin
25 February 2026
Dr. Antoine Boivin added someone with lived experience to his clinic’s healthcare team, and it made visits better for everyone. Hear from him ahead of his talk at the Putting Patients First conference in March.
News
Why elevating patient voices matters in health research
24 February 2026
The BC SUPPORT Unit is celebrating a new series of papers co-authored by patient partners. Medical journals are usually the domain of academic researchers, but elevating the voices of people with lived experience leads to better research.
News
Walking together: Harley Eagle reflects on health and healing
23 February 2026
Harley Eagle offers insights on reconciliation and on how health professionals and researchers can build respectful partnerships with Indigenous communities.